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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: Greatest Hits: After escaping the Jasper forest fires, this tourist couple found safety in the Jewish community
Description: North Star is on vacation this week, so we're rerunning some of our favourite episodes. This one originally aired August 7, 2024.
Sharon Chodirker and Chaim Bell consider themselves lucky: they were among the tens of thousands of tourists and residents in Jasper who were evacuated from the forest fires that devoured a third of the buildings in the iconic Rocky Mountain resort town on July 24, 2024. The Toronto couple, who were on a hiking trip, managed to escape Jasper while smoke and ash rained down on their rental car. When they reached a safe spot across the border in...